4th period
Group 4- Simile SIMILESS!!! BY Zimarya R. A Simile is a comparison of two things that are not alike in most ways and it shows how they can be similar in an important way Unlike Metaphors, A Similie is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
Similies are used to draw attention to similarities to things that seem completely different.
Authors use similes to make writing more interesting. Similes usually compare two nouns
EXAMPLES
Sweet AS Mountain Honey LIKE an Ancient Fear Turned to Dirt and left to Crumble
Drifting LIKE Clouds
The Sky is Black AS Ink AS Graceful as the Morning Mist
Shifting LIKE the sands of the desert
AS Lazy AS the Tropical Sun
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
POEM
A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
Group 4- Simile
SIMILESS!!! BY Zimarya R.
A Simile is a comparison of two things that are not alike in most ways and it shows how they can be similar in an important way
Unlike Metaphors, A Similie is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
Similies are used to draw attention to similarities to things that seem completely different.
Authors use similes to make writing more interesting.
Similes usually compare two nouns
EXAMPLES
Sweet AS Mountain Honey
LIKE an Ancient Fear Turned to Dirt and left to Crumble
Drifting LIKE Clouds
The Sky is Black AS Ink
AS Graceful as the Morning Mist
Shifting LIKE the sands of the desert
AS Lazy AS the Tropical Sun
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti
1830-1894
POEM
A Birthday
by Christina RossettiMy heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
LINKS
This is a video that tells what a simile is and some examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMKaGLmkzk
This is a website that has examples of power points for all ages about similes
http://languagearts.pppst.com/similes.html
This is a website that has a crossword puzzle about Similes
http://iteslj.org/cw/1/ck-animalsimile.html
http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/crossword.htm